Services
A Good Place Helps
Well-rounded mental health therapy:
As a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC), my practice doesn’t just focus on pain, stress and trauma. I also help you to remember and recover your joy.
I provide you with person-centred, somatic, trauma-informed, talk-therapy appointments.
That’s kind of a word salad, I know. But I promise, your therapy sessions won’t sound like a textbook or a self-help influencer post. I speak with you like a real person, having genuine, natural conversations with you.
With me, your professional counselling is safe and accepting, working together to bring you to a good place.
Rates:
Rates are based on the BCACC and CCPA fee guides for counsellors.
Appointments by phone or video meeting.
Standard sessions: 50 minutes, $135
Optional extended sessions 80 minutes, $185
Appointments are available weekly, every ten days, or every two weeks.
Once-a-month maintenance sessions are available after 6 months.
Payment methods accepted are eTransfer or PayPal. No tax.
Please note, I don’t directly accept insurance.
You’re given a monthly PDF receipt to submit to your insurer.
What I Can Help You With:
Anxiety: Reduce feelings of overwhelming stress and anxiety, in your personal life and work life.
Depression: Address the heavy burdens, hold them with care, and learn to lighten them.
Imposter Syndrome: Overcome the bullsh*t feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, by finding your strengths.
Burnout: Learn to recover from, and avoid the exhaustion and overwhelm of mental and/or emotional fatigue.
Performance Anxiety: Address the nerves and fear, so you feel grounded and confident in your talents.
Creative Blocks: Break through mental and emotional barriers to let your creativity start flowing freely.
Past Trauma: Heal from, and make peace with the painful experiences that still affect you now.
Narcissistic Relationships: Recover from, and learn to protect yourself from narcissistic trauma.
Neurodivergent Processing and Communicating: Find clarity and acceptance in how your mind functions.
Boundary Setting and Communication: Create and keep boundaries, communicate in a healthy, clear way.
Goal-setting and Time-Management: Learn to prioritize, and manage your goals and your time effectively.
Hyper-independence and High-sensitivity: Let go of the struggle, and keep the benefits these traits offer.
Self-esteem and Self-worth: Build grounded, real awareness of your own value, find confidence in yourself.
Connect to Your Joy: Remember and/or discover how it feels to let yourself be hopeful, inspired, and happy.
My Counselling Methods:
Talk Therapy:
We explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. I use therapeutic methods like Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), to help you understand and change the patterns affecting your life.
Person-Centred Therapy:
Person-centered therapy is based in the belief that you are the expert of your own life. Because of course you are. Through active listening, non-judgmental conversation, and considerate feedback, I help you build self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-forgiveness, and self-confidence.
Trauma-Informed Counselling:
Trauma-informed care is about how past suffering from childhood, relationships, events, family, work experiences, (or watching ‘The Land Before Time’ or ‘The Neverending Story’ as a kid) influences your mental health and many elements of your life. My approach is done with empathy and careful respect for your personal boundaries. You’ll feel safe, empowered, and supported.
Somatic Therapy:
We also feel the effects of stress and trauma in our bodies. Tension in muscles, stomach-aches, and headaches. Somatic therapy works by teaching you simple ways of connecting your body and mind, to gently release stored emotions, and manage your responses to triggers and stress. This helps you feel more grounded and in-tune with your body. Which is wonderful for improving emotional regulation and creative flow.
Life Coaching:
Life coaching is about helping you to set goals, overcome obstacles, and develop a plan for actions you want to take. Life coaching can give you better clarity about your objectives, improved self-confidence, and real-life motivation that actually works. Through focused support and guidance, it can help you to open up your full potential and lead a more fulfilling life.